Concussions

CONCUSSIONS:

---

preview: watch this video first, then write 2 things you learned about concussions:


Now watch this video: think about who know who has had a concussion and what symptoms you may have seen in them.

• Educating student athletes on concussions

review the warning signs of a concussion by checking out this worksheet and discussing it in class


read this article. As you read, answer the questions in the reading worksheet

• More Than "Getting Your Bell Rung"
• 

  Concussion More Than Getting Your Bell Rung Questions.docx
  

  • Details
  • Download
  • 110 KB
• 

  NHL players sue over head injuries.pdf
  

  • Details
  • Download
  • 113 KB

now see the helmets in use at the UofM

• Discovery news: football helmets detect concussions

---

Additional information for you to check out:

Articles:

• Headers and Memory loss
• The autopsy that changed football
• league of denial - PBS Frontline articles and videos
• From football to flies: lessons on TBI

Images and Infographics:

• National Geographic Concussions interactive

Videos:

• sidelined: concussions in sports

---

even minor hits have an impact
http://www.webmd.com/brain/news/20140408/just-one-season-of-hits-in-high-school-football-may-alter-brain-study

---

Sparticl results for concussions and the brain